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VIDEO: Veterans Tackle Protester With Benghazi Sign At Obama Speech

Veterans tackle anti-Obama protester
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July 23, 2015 1:07 p.m.
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Two veterans tackled an elderly protester and tore a sign reading “The Emperor Benghazi Has No Clothes” from his hands during President Obama’s Tuesday speech on veterans’ issues in Pittsburgh. Video footage by NBC captured the brief scuffle, which occurred as Obama was addressing the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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Allegra Kirkland (@allegrakirkland)  Allegra Kirkland is a New York-based reporter for Talking Points Memo. She previously worked on The Nation’s web team and as the associate managing editor for AlterNet. Follow her on Twitter @allegrakirkland.
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